Ensaios de resistência: uma proposta de prática arquitetônica pela perspectiva do trabalho

Abstract

This dissertation explores the possibility of rethinking the architects practice with the proposal of the teaching of building crafts. It presents the results of a research that experimented metalworking workshops as an architecture practice in the favelas and cultural occupations. Understanding labour in its self-mediation character as fundamental to the development of individual and collective autonomy, I sought to investigate the possibility of a practice that rescues the concrete involvement with the material production os space, reactivating labour as an activity of self-development of man through the pedagogy of the crafts. As a critical work, it points contemporary elements of alienation of labour in construction and the quotidian perception of space. Then, it argues for the pedagogy of crafts as a rationality of labour that enhances its free expression, in favor of a political shift in architectural technology, based on the relation between body, skills, learning and technique. Furthermost, I show that the experience with these workshop practices, although unable to transcend the alienation of labour, creates a productive environment that, in opposition to the hegemonic construction site, foster skills as discipline, critical thinking and concentration.